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Happy 77th Birthday Jennifer Warnes.🎁🎂 CA singer & songwriter, her initial success was playing the female lead of Hair in late ‘68 in L.A.-her single of Easy To Be Hard got to #128 in ‘69 (3 Dog Night hit got to #4 , same year). She met Leonard Cohen in ‘71 & became lifetime friends.
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She toured twice w/ him, arranged vocals & sang on several of his LPs, even releasing her own critically acclaimed LP of Cohen covers in’86. But it was a ‘77 single from her 4th LP, Right Time Of The Night, that made her a star. It hit #6 pop & #1 AC. 2 more Top 40 hits followed, but then recording
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be her real legacy: It Goes Like It Goes from Norma Rae (‘79), One More Hour (Randy Newman) from Ragtime (‘81); then 2 #1 smashes which both won Oscars: Up Where We Belong in ‘82, sung w/ Joe Cocker (Officer & A Gentleman) & I’ve Had The Time Of My Life in ‘87, sung w/ Bill Medley (Dirty Dancing).
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Up Where We Belong : Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - YouTube

Up Where We Belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes is the theme song for the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman". It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 10...

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Jennifer is a GODDESS. Her Famous Blue Raincoat album is one of my all time favorites.
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Mine too. I think she & Cohen were kindred spirits. And he just might be the best songwriter of all time.💙💙💙💙💙💙
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